A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request to suppress the statement of a man accused in the 2010 U.S. Consulate killings in Juárez, stating there is no evidence he was beaten and tortured by Mexican officials.

Arturo Gallegos Castrellon, known as "El Farmero" and "El Benny," was extradited to the U.S. and is awaiting trial on federal racketeering, conspiracy and other charges in connection with the slayings of three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Juárez.

According to court documents, Gallegos Castrellon, through his attorney, Randolph Ortega, asked that a federal judge throw out any confessions he gave to the FBI because the statements "were the product of torture at the hands of Mexican officials and improper psychological pressure by the F.B.I. agents."

At Wednesday's hearing, Ortega denied he was alleging U.S. officials participated in the torture.

Gallegos Castrellon alleged Mexican officials shocked his testicles with an electrical device, hit his torso and the soles of his feet and hung him by his arms. He also accused Mexican officials of beating and raping his wife, who was arrested with Gallegos Castrellon in November 2010 at their Juárez home.

During a hearing before U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone, two FBI agents testified they interviewed Gallegos Castrellon in Mexico City, where he was taken to after his arrest in Juárez.

Both agents testified they were not told if Gallegos Castrellon made any statements to Mexican authorities, or if he had seen a doctor before his interview with the FBI.

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The agents said while on the witness stand that they noticed Gallegos Castrellon was walking with a limp and had small abrasions on his face. When the agents asked Gallegos Castrellon why he was limping, he told them that on the day of his arrest, he tried to escape by jumping out of his home's second story window and onto a tree, but he missed the tree and fell to the ground.

The agents also testified they handed Gallegos Castrellon a paper with his Miranda rights in Spanish, and that he read from the paper out loud. Gallegos Castrellon told agents he understood his rights because he had previously served federal prison time in the U.S. on drug charges.

One agent, Carlos Hernandez, testified Gallegos Castrellon appeared "clean, alert and coherent" during the interview, and seemed at times to brag about the Barrio Azteca gang. Hernandez also testified Gallegos Castrellon didn't appear to be in any pain and didn't complain of any other injuries.

On March 13, 2010, U.S. Consulate employee Lesley Enriquez Redelfs and her husband, Arthur Redelfs, an El Paso County sheriff's detention officer, were killed in a street shooting after leaving a children's party in Juárez. Jorge Salcido Ceniceros, whose wife also worked at the Consulate, was killed in a separate shooting after leaving the same party in another vehicle at about the same time. The attacks have been attributed to the gang.

Mexican officials alleged Gallegos Castrellon ordered attacks that killed 15 students at a birthday party in Villas de Salvarcar in January 2010, the killing of five Mexican federal police officers and the death of the wife and the kidnapping of the parents of an Azteca gang member suspected of cooperating with authorities.

During Gallegos Castrellon's hearing, Ortega alleged at least two other co-defendants in the case have also claimed torture at the hands of Mexican authorities.

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